Cecilienhof Palace
Tudor-style country mansion where the Allied Big Three secretly redrew postwar Europe in 1945.
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This guide to Cecilienhof Palace in Berlin traces the summer of 1945, when the Allied Big Three secretly met inside this Tudor-style country house to redraw Poland's borders and carve up Germany. It builds toward a quiet moment on July 24th, when Harry Truman walked over to Joseph Stalin after a session broke up and told him, almost as an aside, that the United States now had a powerful new weapon. It also follows the separate entrances built for the Americans, British and Soviets, and Winston Churchill's abrupt exit from the talks.
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